Member Since: 9/21/2004
Band Website: IM me: patathomas2000 on AOL, Yahoo or Windows
Band Members: I sing and play guitar, and in a studio setting, I can cover most other instruments. To form a band, I'm looking for drummers, bassists, pianist/keyboard players, percussionists and possibly another guitar player. For studio collaborations, I'm looking for any and all types of musicians.
Influences: Oh boy, the fun part... This will obviously be incomplete, and I'll only try to list the more popular artists, and ones that might reflect a sound that I'm after: Dylan, Hendrix, Led Zep, Santana, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, The Animals, Booker T & the MGs, CCR,The Allman Brothers, The Byrds, The Band, Muddy Waters (and a whole shitload of blues players that would require a whole other list), The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Beatles, Humble Pie, Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, The Meters, Professor Longhair, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Django, Cameron, Paco deLucia, Gabor Szabo, Bueno Vista Social Club, Mongo Santamaria, Sabicas, Ray Barreto, Tito Puente, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Graham Parsons, hmmm more current; Prince, SRV, The Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz..... The White Stripes, The Blue Van, Jet, Mars Volta..... Since the advent of filesharing, my musical tastes have become vast and esoteric, so this really hardly makes a dent.
Sounds Like: I'd like the band as a whole to have a rock-r&b-soul-latin sound, and branch out from there. My personal guitar style sounds like (at my best), Jimi, Carlos, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimmy Page, rolled together with a few others. My main thing is to just try to be subtle and dynamic, qualities many electric guitar players forget, and to add only what each song demands. I can also spread out, playing slide, alt. tunings, acoustic, nylon string, etc. Becoming a multi-instrumentalist (mostly keyboards and bass) in a way taught me alot about the guitar as well, and made me more versatile and well-rounded.
Record Label: Floating World Records
Type of Label: Indie